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Brenda Wong, Md, MBBS

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Neurology, Director of Comprehensive Neuromuscular Center

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-636-4222

Fax: 513-636-3980

Email: brenda.wong@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Neuromuscular disorders

Biography

After medical school, Brenda Wong, MD, received training in General Pediatrics and worked as a pediatrician for a few years before doing her three-year Child Neurology fellowship at Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati.

Dr. Wong also received training in Pediatric Neuromuscular Disorders at Hammersmith Hospital, London with Dr. Victor Dubowitz and Dr. Francesco Muntoni. Dr. Wong's training in EMGs was accomplished with Dr. John Quinlan at Department of Neurology, University of Cincinnati.

Post fellowship training, Dr. Wong was practicing child neurology in private practice prior to joining Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati in 1999.

Besides general neurology patients, Dr. Wong sees patients with neuromuscular disorders in the Neuromuscular Clinic and provide diagnostic services like EMGs and evaluation for muscle biopsies. Comprehensive management is supported by the Department of Rehabilitative Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Pediatric Orthopedics and the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Education and Training

MD: University of Singapore, 1980.

Residency: University Department of Pediatrics, Singapore, 1981, 1984-85, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh 1985-88.

Fellowship: Child Neurology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1994-97; Neuromuscular Disorders, Hammersmith Hospital, London, 1997.

Certification: Child Neurology, 1998.

Publications

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Miles MV, Putnam PE, Miles L, Tang PH, DeGrauw AJ, Wong BL, Horn PS, Foote HL, Rothenberg ME. Acquired coenzyme Q10 deficiency in children with recurrent food intolerance and allergies. Mitochondrion. 2011 Jan;11(1):127-35.

Kim HK, Laor T, Horn PS, Racadio JM, Wong B, Dardzinski BJ. T2 mapping in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: distribution of disease activity and correlation with clinical assessments. Radiology. 2010 Jun;255(3):899-908.

Kim HK, Laor T, Horn PS, Wong B. Quantitative assessment of the T2 relaxation time of the gluteus muscles in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a comparative study before and after steroid treatment. Korean J Radiol. 2010 May-Jun;11(3):304-11.

Yang Z, Funke BH, Cripe LH, Vick GW 3rd, Mancini-Dinardo D, Peña LS, Kanter RJ, Wong B, Westerfield BH, Varela JJ, Fan Y, Towbin JA, Vatta M. LAMP2 microdeletions in patients with Danon disease. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2010 Apr;3(2):129-37.

Henderson RC, Berglund LM, May R, Zemel BS, Grossberg RI, Johnson J, Plotkin H, Stevenson RD, Szalay E, Wong B, Kecskemethy HH, Harcke HT. The relationship between fractures and DXA measures of BMD in the distal femur of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy. J Bone Miner Res. 2010 Mar; 25(3):520-6.